An extensive oceanographic investigation has been carried out in
the North Pacific Ocean. The purpose of this report is to present the results of
two cruises in which we participated and to report additional carbonate ...

The propensities for interspecific courtship and mating among
the four species of the Drosophila melanogaster species complex were studied to
examine Kaneshiro's hypothesis relating asymmetrical interspecific mating ...

Despite its historic role as a criterion of species status, intersterility
sensu lato is not an acceptable characteristic for delineating the genetic
species or field of gene recombination. This conclusion is not new ...

The Hawaiian lizard fishes of the genus Synodus are reviewed; 4
new species are described (bringing to 12 the number known from Hawaii), and
the range of S. capricorn is Cressey and Randall is extended to the ...

A comparison is made of the amount and distribution of heterochromatin
in the mitotic chromosomes of species of the Hawaiian picture-winged
Drosophila, and metaphase configurations among these species are
compared with ...

The value of sand as aggregate for concrete for the construction
industry and as sediment for artificial beach replenishment at tourist destinations
on Oahu has increased following a legislative moratorium on the mining ...

Settlement and growth of the pedunculate barnacle Pollicipes
polymerus was studied within an intake seawater system at the Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, La Jolla, California. Over a 47-day period (SeptemberOctober
1983), ...

In a group of closely related Australian Chironomus species, the
position of the sex-determining region is variable, not only in different species
(or forms) but , in at least one case, also within the same form. This ...

The association of bottleneck effects and speciation patterns observed
in South American flies Drosophila paulistorum, lizards Anolis chrysolepis
and Mabuya arajara, and frogs in the genus Cycloramphus is briefly ...

The Hawaiian Islands contain two species of Uncinia (Cyperaceae):
Uncinia uncinata, with glabrous utricles, occurs at high elevations in Hawai'i,
Maui, Moloka'i, and Kaua'i, and is the most common species in New Zealand;
U. ...